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Re: Bad Choices
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Date: 
Fri, 26 May 2000 00:42:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Wilkins writes:
When they first came up with SCSI, the originators of the standard (no, I
don't remember who it was) tried to impress upon everyone else that SCSI

   That would be Shugart

should be pronounced "sexy"... it was the geeks (snorting derisively at a too-
cute acronym, no doubt) that perpetrated the 'scuzzy' pronunciation.


  Actually it was spelled SASI and pronounced "sassy".  It later became a
non-company specified standard and was renamed SCSI.



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  Re: Bad Choices
 
When they first came up with SCSI, the originators of the standard (no, I don't remember who it was) tried to impress upon everyone else that SCSI should be pronounced "sexy"... it was the geeks (snorting derisively at a too- cute acronym, no doubt) (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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